domingo, 11 de abril de 2010

Paul Grignon - Money: Jailer or Liberator

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Paul is an artist and a political and environmental activist. Most recently he has become known worldwide as the creator of the animated movies Money as Debt, and Money as Debt II: Promises Unleashed, which illuminate the workings of the Western monetary system now collapsing around us. Money as Debt has been translated into at least 14 languages and pirated all over the Web. Money can enslave us or set us free, depending on the design of the money system. Paul will explain how the current system is our jailor, why the walls of the jail are now closing in and what we need to do in order to liberate money. moneyasdebt.net/

"How the Media Frames Political Issues" by Scott London

In The Emergence of American Political Issues (1977) McCombs and Shaw state that the most important effect of the mass media is "its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."[13] The presidential observer Theodore White corroborates this conclusion in The Making of a President (1972):

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.[14]

McCombs and Shaw also note that the media's tendency to structure voters' perceptions of political reality in effect constitutes a bias: "to a considerable degree the art of politics in a democracy is the art of determining which issue dimensions are of major interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support."[15]http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html